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1) do you hate coldplay?
2) do you read music magazines, etc?
3) do you listen to the radio?

― ron (ron), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:29 (twenty-three years ago)

no, yes, no

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

no, sometimes, yes

― paul cox (paul cox), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:43 (twenty-three years ago)

no, yes, yes.
but i want the option of changing my first no at a later date if they get more irritating

― donna (donna), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Passively, sorta, no. Er, yay?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

1) no, but I haven't heard Yellow recently
2) when I don't spend all my music allowence on other nonsense
3) yes

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

The big factor you're missing is what country do you live in.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:01 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Not sure. I've only heard one song by them, but I didn't care for it much.
2. Only in stores
3. Not really. Unless Hot 97 counts, but if they ever played Coldplay I don't think I would ever listen to them again.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, sometimes, yes.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 3 October 2002 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Yes, No

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 October 2002 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like them, not any more really, yes sometimes.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 3 October 2002 07:32 (twenty-three years ago)

no, no, sometimes

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 3 October 2002 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Not really my cup of tea, hate is too extreme. I've heard yellow and another one of their songs, at best pleasent at worst boring.
2. Nah, don't read music magazines. Well, I flick through Kerrang and NME is smiths sometimes. And I don't really read online reviews, infact reading the odd ILM thread and NYPLM is all the music reading I do. I go for the blind method of buying CDs.
3. I don't listen to the radio. I watch music TV though. I can't really relate to chart pop without watching the videos too.

Being a humanities graduate I have rambled on, as I feel the questions should have been more open ended, in keeping with the requirements of qualitative research. (just kidding! :)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't like.
No, except online.
Yes.

― Jacob, Thursday, 3 October 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

no, yes, no

― kinski (kinski), Thursday, 3 October 2002 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Have had a borrowed CD of theirs on my desk for three months - still haven't listened to it.. so I don't know yet.

Rarely.. Only short articles.

Public Radio news & occasionally commercial radio music.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 3 October 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

no, sometimes, not lately.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 3 October 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

meh, sometimes, yes.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Regarding #1: Just listened, finally. It didn't kill me.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Has it made you stronger?

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel a bit sleepy.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

No.Yes.No.

― dek1, Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, No, Yes.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. Yes. Yes.

I should form a NY 'punk' group, obv.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not a hata (but I don't like 'em); occasionally; not at the moment, sadly.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

no yes yes

i am american

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes no maybe so.

Actually, it's 1) not really, 2) yes but I rarely buy them, and 3) yes.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

No. Heat. Yes.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

hooray, there's 3 of us who hate them! the rest of you should be ashamed of yourselves. bedwetters. ;)

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

1) i saw a Coldplay interview on VH-1 where the interviewer used the word "influence" and Chris Martin corrected him. so no.

2) if online counts then yes, if not no.

3) if MTV etc counts, then yes, if not not.

― thom west (thom w), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Don't like them, but I certainly don't hate them
2. Sometimes
3. Yes

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Like the instrumentals, HATE the voice.
2. Occasionally.
3. Occasionally.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

pretty much what dan said; except i love 'yellow' (one of those songs that i hated for ages, then heard when really drunk and loved. usually when that happens the song in question still sounds rubbish the next day, but not this time.) also i keep getting 'trouble' stuck in my brain, and i think the first track off the new album ('politik'?) would make a fantastic instrumental. the voice is ok - the lyrics are the problem.

does no-one else like 'yellow'? really?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

No, yes, no

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 3 October 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes (tho hate is a strong word), no (well, occasionally), yes

― blueski, Thursday, 3 October 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, rarely (i'm poor), rarely (i need a little classic rock every now and then)

what do you ppl like (or not hate) about Coldplay? What could be worse than their self serious histrionics and bland derivative overwrought arrangements? (Answer: sigur ros obv)

― Aaron A., Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

1. not hate, just the same indifference they show when making records/performing. Actually maybe I hate them for that.
2. If you can consider nme.com, pitchfork, nylpm to be "magazines" then yes, but I don't buy the printed stuff anymore.
3. absolutely, and KCRW in LA plays them all the time. But I can switch to "blazin' hip-hop 'n' r'n'b" whenever that happens!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

No,Yes,Yes

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

In answer to toby, above, i heard politik in a record shop the other day and was so convinced it was 'dirge' by Death In Vegas. Sounded really good, I must say.

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

what do you ppl like (or not hate) about Coldplay? What could be worse than their self serious histrionics and bland derivative overwrought arrangements? (Answer: sigur ros obv)

Heh -- Mark P to thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know if i've ever heard a coldplay song. (god bless america!)

no. (well, i buy the wire once a century and occasionally someone guilts me into buying a zine.)

yes.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:43 (twenty-three years ago)

does no-one else like 'yellow'? really?

y'know, I used to really like it. But oversaturation kills my love of anything, to be honest.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

no, very occasionally, yes

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks all. i guess this was a pretty dumb question - also, probably a good point about nationality. so, of course i was just trying to figure out where the bile was coming from.

oversaturation kills my love of anything, to be honest - and this was one place that hatred is coming from, yes? and, i'm to understand, especially in the UK?

this was part of a pitchfork review of the new one:

we began to hear rumblings from the many-headed hydra of UK rock journalism that some amazing new music had come to usher us into the New World. This music was deemed fascinating, uncompromising and utterly prizeworthy by our English brethren, who spoke in hushed tones of how it was to be the coming of "the next Radiohead," or perhaps more tellingly, "the next Travis."

(i'm not fully able to catch the full meaning of that quote, as i have never heard travis and have no idea as to how they are thought of/ their importance etc.) i can understand hatred that's caused by over-hyping a band, it just seems like people don't own up to the fact that it's the hype that is bothering them. who cares if they are boring, you'd just ignore them if it weren't for the media ranting and raving. wouldn't it be better to ignore the media than be pissed off all the time about their newest darling?

anyways, not that it matters or anyone cares, but the reason i like some of these new songs (i have never heard anything off of parachutes except for yellow, and i admit to hearing that an awful lot on mtv and the radio) is that they just plain sound nice to me. i don't really have any baggage to contend with when i hear the music. it's not the greatest or anything, i just like it!

so sue me - i like the new coldplay album!! ;-)

i used to really hate pearl jam specifically because of all the attention they garnered, esp. the 'best band in the world' stuff. i can't remember if i was honest about why i hated them at the time, probably not... now i just don't really care much either way about them. i have a copy of vs. that i was given and i actually paid 5 dollars for a copy of vitalogy.

― ron (ron), Friday, 4 October 2002 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

1. i hate the fact that my own complacence (and that of others) has allowed them to exist and grow.
2. yes - but not as much as i used to cos i don't trust "them" or have much interest in the people "they" interview. ironic innit? Jockey Slut's ok, and PlayLouder's a giggle. Oh, and http://www.threedworld.com.au of course (oops).
3. yes, but only selectively, ie. no daytime stuff really - http://www.2ser.com is amazing tho...

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 4 October 2002 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

yes. no. sometimes.

― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 4 October 2002 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Triple yes. Although hate is a strong word, I do not like Coldplay at all. (It's like hating Radiohead on a saner level.) I read less magazines. These days it's mainly Wire, Uncut, Mojo and Q. As of late I seem to be listening to the radio again. I noticed I can't stand silence: I always need background noise.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 4 October 2002 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete still likes Yellow I think.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 4 October 2002 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Yellow and I don't read magazines or listen to music on the radio. What I heard of their last album sounded terrible, though.

― Richard Jones (scarne), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

dislike them but hate is too strong a word, sometimes, yes

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 4 October 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

no, sometimes, yes

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

yes with a passion, no, yes (but only radio 4 no music!!yay!)

― el wanko, Saturday, 5 October 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a copy of vs. that i was given and i actually paid 5 dollars for a copy of vitalogy.

there is hope for you all yet.

― Kiwi, Saturday, 5 October 2002 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Coldplay are nice enough but I agree with this guy... "A Rush of Blood to the Head suggests something impulsive reckless and wild. Nothing could be further from the truth. The albulm is cautious, considered, thoughtful and ultimately a bit dull" (Listener 5/11)

― Kiwi, Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

would this be a bad time to say the new sigur ros is grebt?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Never thought I'd rep for a song of theirs, but Miracles seems to be genuinely affecting or almost thereabouts

― calstars, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 00:14 (eight years ago)

At least until the rapping part. Or more accurately the first minute.

― calstars, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 00:15 (eight years ago)

'A L I E N S' easily the highlight of the new EP for me.

― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 02:53 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

i liked their first 3 releases then they lost me as they got too commercial!

― xzanfar, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 22:35 (five years ago)

I’m a big fan of their earliest stuff, hell even the “Ode to Deodorant”/“Brothers and Sisters” demo tape is a million miles better than anything on that “landfill indie” thread I slogged through a couple months ago. I absolutely adore the sparse-quiet-production-plus-loud-jangly-arpeggiated-guitar sound of Parachutes. Anyway, once they started trying to sound like an arena rock band on their second album I kinda got off the bus. I do love Chris Martin and his piano, though. More pop songs should have pianos in them.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 00:07 (five years ago)

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